Warner Brothers has made their choice for adapting Stephen King‘s thousand page-plus tome The Stand and their choice is Ben Affleck, according to Deadline Hollywood. Affleck would then be brought on to both write and direct the project after finishing his current feature Argo.
Well, it looks like the star-studded cast of Baz Luhrman’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby might just get a little bigger—in addition to nabbing Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Macguire as narrator Nick Carraway, and Carrie Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Luhrman just might be able to add Ben Affleck to the cast as Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, if Affleck’s schedule can accommodate it.
Terrence Malick is a serious mystery. The reclusive director is known for taking abnormally long breaks between films, but he’s decided to change his pattern. Malick has two recently shot films that have yet to hit theaters. The first one is The Tree of Life, which stars Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, and the other is an untitled drama that features Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams. Over on THR, they debuted the first image from the latter film. Check out the full photo…
Ben Affleck is two for two when it comes to directing high quality dramas, and it looks like he might have found project number three. According to EW, Affleck is in talks to direct Argo, a political thriller that’s set up a Warner Bros through George Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov. Affleck loves good material, and this film is right up his ally.
Aside from Jason Reitman‘s Up In The Air, Oliver Stone‘s Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps and a couple of snooze-worthy doc’s, few filmmakers have utilized our current economic climate on the project-front. First feature-length writer/director John Wells takes a stab at a little social/economic commentary in his film The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck (watch interview), Tommy Lee Jones, and Chris Cooper. The film’s up for a nationwide release this Friday. Check out the review below…
Is Matt Damon ready to take a step behind the camera? According to close friend, fellow actor, and director Ben Affleck he is. Affleck recently sat down with MTV to promote his latest film The Town and spoke about another joint project him and his younger brother Casey have been working on. It’s called The Trade, and the siblings wrote the script and they want Damon to direct it.
It’s time to reveal who will the winners are of our The Town giveaway. First, thank you to all who participated. We received a lot of them. To those of you who missed out we were giving away a number of things from jackets to duffle bags to coaster sets all in honor of The Town. All you had to do to was leave a comment on who you thought would be the better bad-ass in The Town, Jeremy Renner or Ben Affleck? Let’s see if you won…
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We’re having another giveaway and it’s super awesome! We’re all excited about Ben Affleck‘s The Town, right? It’s got the man himself and freaking Jeremy Renner along with a star-studded cast and is already getting great early reviews out of Venice Film festival. So! In celebration we have a chance for you to win win clothes, coasters, and perhaps, a duffle bag? Yes! All from the film. Check it out…
Festival season is in full swing with the Venice, Telluride, and Toronto Film Festivals opening back to back. Over the past week we’ve been bringing you early reviews from some of the most talked about movies on the circuit and the latest is The Town. It’s directed by/ stars Ben Affleck, and is based on the book The Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan. The trailer makes the film look quite intriguing, but does it live up to the hype?
